HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080409070
Bassin de Ulster
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 5 administrative regions : Fulda, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Rhön-Grabfeld, Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Wartburgkreis
Sub-basin area
428,2km²
Upstream area
428,2km²
Discharge
3,68m³/s
Mean elev.
480m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 240.5 km²56.0% of basin
- 139.8 km²32.5% of basin
- 22.7 km²5.3% of basin
- 21.2 km²4.9% of basin
- 5.5 km²1.3% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Biosphärenreservat Rhön
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve
413.16 km² overlap
Rhön, Entwicklungszone
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve - transition area
264.97 km² overlap
Hessische Rhön
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
186.46 km² overlap
Hessische Rhön
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
159.92 km² overlap
Thüringische Rhön
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
155.09 km² overlap
Rhön, Pflegezone
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve - buffer zone
133.75 km² overlap
Thüringische Rhön
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
54.75 km² overlap
Hochrhön
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
33.22 km² overlap
Hohe Rhön
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
29.12 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Kuppige Rhön südwestlich Dermbach
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
18.65 km² overlap
Grünes Band Hessen
IUCN IIINature monuments
18.29 km² overlap
Rhön, Kernzone
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve - core area
14.45 km² overlap
Vorderrhön
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
13.32 km² overlap
Hohe Rhön
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.94 km² overlap
Bayerische Hohe Rhön
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.56 km² overlap
Bayerische Hohe Rhön
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
5.55 km² overlap
LSG "Bayerische Rhön"
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
5.53 km² overlap
Lange Rhön
IUCN IVNature Reserve
5.50 km² overlap
Grünes Band Thüringen
IUCN IIINature monuments
5.29 km² overlap
NSG Rößberg - NSG Tannenberg-Seelesberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.64 km² overlap
Soisberg
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
3.44 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
3.10 km² overlap
Ulster
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.00 km² overlap
Ulsteraue
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.79 km² overlap
Rasdorfer Berg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.68 km² overlap
NSG Horbel - Hoflar - Birkenberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.64 km² overlap
Hubenberg - Michelsberg - Auewäldchen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.57 km² overlap
Öchsenberg - Dietrichsberg - Sattelberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.48 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
1.81 km² overlap
NSG Teufelsberg - Pietzelstein
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.72 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 442 distinct species · 41 676 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Ulster : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 136 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 24.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
7,4°C
Annual rain
765mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
271mm/an
PET
744mm
AET
573mm
Mean slope
6,6°
Water table
353cm
Forest
11%
Crops
29%
Urban
0%
Protected
84%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)